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The Storch was fitted with a machine gun so I would say that makes it a combat aircraft

My mother was a child in a farming family in western germany during the war and was injured during a fighter bomber attack on the farm she worked on so it's not a one way thing. Although it was an RAF sinle seat fighter she sain the Americans were the worst culprits and used to enjoy it

Sadly 109 G2 "Black 6" was seriously damaged during a forced landing at Duxford a few years ago on what was intended to have been its last flight before retirement to a museum. There had been moves in place to extend the flying career of the restored aircraft but the crash effectively put an...

The Buchon or Spanish 109 used the Merlin engines simply beacause they were the best obtainable replacement for the Daimler Benz engines that were unavailable. Merlins were also used in the CASA built versions of the Heinkel 111. Both went on toi serve the Spanish Air force until the 70's...